Hi, On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 12:24:12PM +0000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > One of my workstations died and I'm looking to replace it, since > the computing needs are not great I thought it might be nice to use > something low powered and the dual core Atom 330 looks like a good option. > > I'm a little torn between two Asrock boards the A330GC with an > Intel chipset and the rather newer A330ION with it's faster memory and all > out more of everything and apparently lower power consumption than the > lesser Intel chipset.
There's a brand new generation of Atom CPUs out there since this month : http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3692 If you can afford to wait a little while, I would recommend to go with an Atom D510 (330 equivalent: two cores, 2 threads per core). I'm thinking myself of getting this board soon: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H The two gigabit ethernet and 6 sata ports are particularly nice for a small file server. -- Francois Tigeot
